Small Kindnesses was created for Spring Student Dance Concert in March 2023. I worked with the freshmen cohort to create my first work at James Madison University (JMU) with 11 dancers, 17 minutes, and projected abstractions of the live performance. Creating this work for the EJM Theater offered a valuable…
In spring 2024, I was excited to begin a collaboration with renowned cinematographer Joe Foley and renowned director and School of Media Arts and Design professor at JMU, Imelda O’Reily. As choreographer for “Under the Wolf’s Cloak 360°,” the vision was a film for the planetarium, filmed with an Insta360…
I am very excited to begin my new chapter as Assistant Professor of Dance and Technology @ JMU this fall. I will be implementing courses allowing students to experiment with new and existing technologies in their current dance classes and building curricular changes in order to have dance and technology…
I was honored to be selected as one of nine works to be presented at Prime Produce, a multidisciplinary gallery space in Manhattan, to present an installation and performance in Hidden in Plain Sight, an exhibit highlighting unseen statistics. Our opening had over 500 guests bustling in this space and…
All photos were taken by Nikki Lee in Dec 2022 This weekend I had the opportunity to dig deeper into the pedagogy of movement in Virtual Reality with Elm City Dance Collective at the Dragon’s Egg in upstate CT. The warm brave space was cultivated by all the participants and…
Extending the body was presented at the 2022 International Conference of Movement and Computing as an embodied practice in Virtual Reality (VR) using real-time movement improvisation as the creation of visual movement traces in the VR painting program Open Brush (an off-shoot of Google’s Tilt Brush) in Oculus Quest.
The Spectacles Creator Program was an opportunity for me to experiment with the creation of an environment for AR-based improvisation using their wireless hands-free AR glasses. During the residency, Snap Inc. sends you a pair of not yet for sale Snap Inc.’s Spectacles to use and create experiences that “push…
Moonshot: solos for your home officialy launched on the Android and Apple app stores for it’s opening at Virginia Common Wealth’s Dance on Camera on September 20, 2021. VCU’s audience came together in their respective safety zones with permission to use their devices while sitting in the theater! “Please take…
Spending the last two months in the virtual ether with these amazing humans has been an honor. What a wonderful platform for artists/technologists/curators. Goals: This residency came right after completing one leg of research. It was such a wonderful opportunity to re-question everything that I created in the first versions…
For the past three months, these beautiful dancer/actors and I have been working on building material around the ideas of “Super Human.” It didn’t take us long to identify the key element…humanity. “What is a super power?” and “Who is super human?” were our jumping off points to access and…